CSS Animation for Beginners. The human brain is hardwired to pay attention to moving objects.

Because of this natural reflex to notice movement, adding animation to your website or app is a powerful way to draw users attention to important areas of your product and add interest to your interface. When done well, animations can add valuable interaction and feedback, as well as enhance the emotional experience, bring delight, and add personality to your interface. In fact, to animate means to bring to life. Emotional design’s primary goal is to facilitate human-to-human communication. If we’re doing our job well, the computer recedes into the background, and personalities rise to the surface.

Aarron Walter, Designing For Emotion. Image Sequences: Let Me Count The Ways « Thomas Reynolds. Image Sequences: Let Me Count The Ways Everyone's very excited by their "Pure CSS" this and "Pure CSS" that, but if we are front-end developers really want to start taking on traditionally Flash use-cases, we're going to need to step out animation game up a notch.

This week I implemented Image Sequences in 3 different ways. And just yesterday, Apple started using another technique on their iPad product page. The Animation I'll be animating a "bouncing" particle. Each frame is 104x124. Here's a zip of the entire 60 frame sequence. Finally, here's a 560kb Sprite Sheet containing all the frames.

An Introduction To CSS3 Keyframe Animations. By now you’ve probably heard at least something about animation in CSS3 using keyframe-based syntax.

The CSS3 animations module1 in the specification has been around for a couple of years now, and it has the potential to become a big part of Web design. Using CSS3 keyframe animations, developers can create smooth, maintainable animations that perform relatively well and that don’t require reams of scripting. It’s just another way that CSS3 is helping to solve a real-world problem in an elegant manner. If you haven’t yet started learning the syntax for CSS3 animations, here’s your chance to prepare for when this part of the CSS3 spec moves past the working draft2 stage. In this article, we’ll cover all the important parts of the syntax, and we’ll fill you in on browser support so that you’ll know when to start using it.

A Simple Animated Landscape Scene Link For the purpose of this article, I’ve created a simple animated landscape scene to introduce the various aspects of the syntax.
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Apple Mice. Work with animations - Firefox Developer Tools. This article covers three tools you can use to visualize and edit animations: Animation inspectorEdit From Firefox 41, the Page Inspector includes an extra view labeled "Animations".

This view displays CSS transitions and CSS animations synchronized along a timeline, with a draggable widget you can use to move to any point in the timeline and see the page at that point. To see how it works, we'll walk through an example. The box below contains three grayscale icons, each representing a different Firefox channel. Let's use the animation inspector to see what's going on in this example. Using Firefox 43 or later, right-click one of the icons and select "Inspect Element". Now play the animation: Let's take a closer look at the contents of the animation inspector here: It shows a synchronized timeline for every CSS property transition involved in the animation. Each animation or transition is shown as a horizontal bar laid across the timeline: To the left of the selector is a "target" icon ( ).
A 3D engine built using HTML and CSS 3D transforms by Keith Clark. Quelques idées d’animations simples en CSS3 avec la propriété transition - CSS / CSS3.